This is an analysis of Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaX aaaX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 10011101 1011111 10111101 11111000 00011111 101111100 10010101 101010010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

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